Finding ways to use computers to do what computers can't do. Pushing students to be creative through their assignments by providing them with an audience, giving them the opportunity to participate with the outside world, and allowing them to build a community.

1. Building an Effective
1:1 Learning
Community
Tom Daccord

2. EdTechTeacher

4. Use computers to do what computers can’t do.

5. If ... Then?

6. Say, what?!

7. Day in the Life of a Hobo

8. Math Mov!es

9. “Excuse me, Mr. President. . . .”

10. Do your 1:1 assignments push students to
be creative?
– Or does the homework ask students to do rules-based
tasks that computers can be programmed to do?

12. Provide them with an audience

13. Extreme Biology

14. Math Train

15. Student News Action Network

16. Do your 1:1 students participate with the
outside world?

18. Make it a community of interdependence

19. Daccord U.S. History

20. Henry IV

21. The Great Debate of 2008

22. Does your 1:1 program build community?

24. Nuts, Bolts, Ideas
• laptop system
• tabs
• chat
• polls & surveys
• handhelds
• buddies

25. Great Debate of 2008
http://greatdebate2008.wikispaces.com/
Student News Action Network
http://www.studentnewsaction.net/
George Washington
http://21stcenturytoolsncss.wikispaces.com/examples
A Day in the Life of a Hobo
http://edtechteacher.org/hobopodcast.html
Extreme Biology
http://missbakersbiologyclass.com/blog/
Mathtrain.tv
Math Mov!es
http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/01801/
Henry IV wiki
http://reidenglish.wikispaces.com

26. Tom Daccord & Justin Reich
Co-Directors of EdTechTeacher, Inc.
tom@edtechteacher.org
Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology
(M.E. Sharpe Press)
Twitter
@thomasdaccord